snowseau
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So, I decided at the start of this month for a few reasons to support getting my life together and really stepping away from the consumerism of it all, I will be undertaking a No Spend for the rest of this year and most of, if not all, of next year, to get my spending under control and also work on paying down my debt and start saving for a flat deposit.
I have always been a prolific library user from a physical book pov, and since being able to use Libby on my Kobo as well it's been a game changer once I found a library that used it here in the UK.
However, buying books has always been a HUGE weakness of mine (alongside borrowing them) over the last few years particularly. Given reading is my main big hobby, I really wanted to move my habit from ‘buying’ automatically to ‘borrowing’ automatically to really work on resetting the consuming urge, and, actually, maybe having to endure some delayed gratification shock horror if there was a wait list at the library for said book. I also have a huge number of books on my own TBR shelves that I should be reading from before adding to them!
As part of this, to hammer the point home to myself, I decided to keep a running list of all of the books I borrow from the library, and how much they would have cost me to buy new based on the Waterstones price (I am a UK girl), and also by fair comparison because I do use it a lot, on the Kobo store as not all of my purchases would have been physical (I have a 75/25 spilt).
Fair to say not even one month in and i’m already shocked! I’ve read 11 books from the library this month and saved £165 against the physical price and £89 on the EBooks!!!
Just wanted to mention it for anyone who is doing something similar and who might want a little bit of motivation to see how much money you are saving, whilst still being able to enjoy what you love :)
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